(Paul Smith, left; George Groves, right) Since its inception in 1984, Britons have found the super middleweight division to be a bountiful and treasure-laden hunting ground. Alphabet title plunderers at 168 lbs. have included Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Robin Reid, Joe Calzaghe and most recently of all, Carl Froch. And the success of this bunch, […]

Lucian Bute has long been one of boxing’s most luminescent talents. The question is one of perspective: Does he shine so brightly because he’s truly that sparkling, or is the brightness magnified by how dim his company is? Saturday night on Showtime, for the first time in five fights, the popular Canadian super middleweight is […]

Alfredo Angulo has a super-dope castle. Its fortified walls have thus far proven virtually impenetrable. James Kirkland has a really big cannon. Nearly everything that has encountered its fire has been pulverized. It’ll be a primitive good time Saturday night on HBO, finding out which junior middleweight will be better at getting medieval on the […]

Happy Halloween, everyone. They can make a “sexy ____ costume” out of everything. There’s your sexy boxer costume. But did you know you could be a sexy watermelon? If not, you do now. (h/t girlfriend of the site Jenna) In this spoooooooky edition of Round and Round, besides what’s in the headlines, we also explore […]

The phrase “boxing hotbed” is one of those fight terms that gets thrown about with ease whether the user truly understands its meaning or not — like “shot,” “exposed” and “ring generalship.” There aren’t many boxing hotbeds around right now, be it for lack of overall interest in the sport, or maybe even times just […]

Although we waited forever and ever and ever and ever, a news release from Golden Boy Promotions in conjunction with Mayweather Promotions Friday tells us that last month’s pay-per-view fight garnered 1.25 million pay-per-view buys and the second-highest non-heavyweight gross earnings in PPV history. But what does it all mean? That is, in the ongoing […]

This sport is rife with good evidence that there’s a voodoo priest hiding perhaps under HBO unofficial scorer Harold Lederman’s chair at ringside sticking needles into effigies of boxing headliners. How else is it possible that in the last several “big” fights, all of the action has all been before the match? Oh, there have […]

Too often, segments of boxing fandom and boxing journalism force things into binary categories: “HBO needs to feature exciting fights, not important ones.” “HBO needs to focus on fights, not fighters.” The results of a Twitter poll and part I of this two-part series, where I asked people about what fights they wanted that they’re […]